Friday, August 13, 2010

Who Is Going to Be Our Newt?

I don't often cite Richard Lugar as an authority on the Republican Party's future, but he asks some of the right questions here.

"The question is, how creative will Republicans be in the face of this? If we get the majority, will there be the sort of negotiations that occurred between Newt Ginrich and Bill Clinton, for example?" he said. "And if so, who is going to be our Newt?"

Lugar was asked whether Republicans such as House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky can fill that role.

"Probably not," Lugar said. "But it's a very important question."

And even Gingrich largely fizzled out after 1996. To me, the Republicans' biggest problem is a lack of leadership ready to take over should they regain the majority. The leaders who took over after 1994 had been planning and had an agenda in place for quite some time. That strikes me as much more worth worrying about than a few Tea Party primary victories.

That's what the TEA Parties are trying to tell Republicans, we are looking for leadership - and still not impressed with what we see. Antle is right - today's GOP is still listening to consultants who tell them to stay away from issues that don't poll well. That's not leadership, it's just more of the same. We do need a new Newt - the old one doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. He's still got good things to say but he is unelectable. Where is the new one and WHERE THE HELL IS THE NEW AGENDA!! The GOP is about to blow a golden opportunity.- SP

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Welcome Seymour/Jackson County bloggers! I decided that it was time to venture out into another one of the lanes on the information superhighway and put together this blog. It seems that some of the folks that I have been bombarding with emails about the ongoing political craziness don't appreciate me filling up their email boxes (rightfully so, I guess).So I have established this blog as a way to communicate some of the wealth of information that I look at on a regular basis.

This marvel called the Internet gives us a wonderful opportunity to communicate mass quantities of information so quickly and efficiently. And in today's political environment it is having a profound impact, as we witnessed in last week's election.

In the days of the founding of this Republic, the citizens established Committees of Correspondence in order to keep informed of what was happening in each of the Colonies but they were hampered by the weeks and months that it took to get a written communique throughout the country.

Today we can send such much more info in milliseconds and it is making a difference!So that is my mission here - to provide info and correspondence to those who are concerned with the direction of our beloved Republic. I hope you join with me, I intend to leave the comments section open (for now), so let me know your thoughts. Hopefully you will find the things talked about here and the links provided to be of some benefit.